Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
By: Kathryn Gin Lum
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergi…
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1. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
2. Fundamentalism and American Culture
By: George M. Marsden
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religi… read more
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- american history
- religion
- history
- nonfiction
3. Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them
By: Robert A. Orsi
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Between Heaven and Earthexplores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Vi… read more
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4. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
By: None
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Opening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book… read more
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5. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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6. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
By: Andrés Reséndez
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A landmark history -- the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across … read more
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7. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
By: Thavolia Glymph
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
8. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- american history
- history
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
9. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
10. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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- american history
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- sociology
11. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
By: Lerone A. Martin
3.94
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of … read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
12. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
By: Michael John Witgen
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homelan… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
13. Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire
By: Helen Jin Kim
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1973, Billy Graham, America's Pastor, held his largest ever crusade. But he was not, as one migh… read more
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- christianity
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
14. Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
By: Erin L. Thompson
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people r… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"Displaying a monument that claims white people control America in an institution that is controlled by white people merely reinforces its message."-Erin L. Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
"When there is no process, people lose hope that their voices will be heard. And then they take action, even if there's no legal route to do so. But this action might not be the one they really want t…"-Erin L. Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
"Some of those who say they are worried about erasing history are really objecting to decisions about monuments being taken down by a small group of people, whether protesters or officials. Ideally, c…"-Erin L. Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
15. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
By: Monica Muñoz Martinez
4.48
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A moving account of a little-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexi… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
16. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
By: Laura F. Edwards
3.63
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those wh… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
17. Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
By: Carolyn Chen
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity Silicon Va… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- sociology
18. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
By: Kathryn Olivarius
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immun… read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
19. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
By: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham g… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
20. Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)
By: Jonathan Tran
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism … read more
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- race
"Deracialization, not postracialism, should be the goal."-Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)
"Relying, as identarianism increasingly does, on vague concepts like “whiteness"-Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)
"Identarianism’s individualizing approach will not do. If we hope to succeed, we will need others."-Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)
"Approaching race through political economy will not get at everything that racism is, and does, but it gets at what can be managed, and in the last resort lived."-Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)
21. Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
By: Kathryn Gin Lum
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergi… read more
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- sociology
